Jan Rudinsky, an elderly engineer, arrives in a quiet mining town on business. Cold and businesslike, he finally cannot resist the charm of Rajka, the daughter of the owners. The second half of the film focuses on Barbulovich, a labourer, and his turbulent personal life. Considered one of the best in the mine, he is violent and unfaithful at home. Dusan Makavejev's debut film is part of the Black Wave - 1970s. The Black Wave was a Yugoslav film movement of the 1970s, characterised by black humour, criticism of the socialist regime and formalist experimentation. Filled with elements of slapstick comedy, the film deals with inequality in a supposedly equal society, and depicts the consequences of authoritarianism in human consciousness and private life. "Man is Not a Bird is a great introduction to Makavejev's provocative world. N-16 Makavejev's documentary Parade (1962, 11 min.) will be screened before A Man is Not a Bird. It depicts the preparations for May Day, but the director's gaze is not on the celebration, but on individuals or faces in the crowd, revealing with humour the clumsy preparations and the surrealism of social realism. The film was banned because of its irony - it ends without ever showing the actual start of the parade. N-13 Serbo-Croatian film with Lithuanian and English subtitles. In Serbo-Croatian language with Lithuanian and English subtitles."The Skalvija Film Centre presents a retrospective of films dedicated to Dusan Makavejev (1932-2019). Makavejev contributed to the formation of the Black Wave, a Yugoslav film movement of the 1970s inspired by the French Nouvelle Vague. Makavejev's cinema is a unique synthesis of eroticism, politics, parody, fact and fiction. Following Godard's fragmentary form, he developed his own original style and became one of the most provocative and political figures in the history of modernist cinema, comparable to Luis Bunuel or John Waters. This programme presents five feature-length films and one short documentary, marking the director's different periods, from his beginnings to his fame and work abroad, when he had to leave his home country following the banning of W.R.: The Secret of the Organism. Organized by Skalvija Cinema Sponsor Lithuanian Film Centre